All Outputs (16)

Precarious mobilities on the axis of changing labour and mobility dynamics: The case of female domestic workers in Istanbul during the COVID-19 pandemic (2025)
Journal Article

In this paper, we examine the overlapping challenges that arose from domestic work, gender, and class in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, with implications that extend beyond this timeframe. We explore how these factors intersect with reproducti... Read More about Precarious mobilities on the axis of changing labour and mobility dynamics: The case of female domestic workers in Istanbul during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The new frontier of urban mobility: A scenario-based analysis of autonomous vehicles adoption in urban transportation (2024)
Journal Article

Urban mobility, as a critical component of urban development and sustainability, is on the brink of a major revolution with the advent and widespread adoption of autonomous vehicles (AVs). However, the ambitious vision of a transformative shared econ... Read More about The new frontier of urban mobility: A scenario-based analysis of autonomous vehicles adoption in urban transportation.

Rescuing transport from inequities: How can automated and connected transport contribute to a more inclusive transport system? (2024)
Book Chapter

The massive investment in, and development of, automated and connected transport (ACT) technology development has triggered much debate about this breakthrough technology’s potential positive and negative impacts. Multiple studies have explored the p... Read More about Rescuing transport from inequities: How can automated and connected transport contribute to a more inclusive transport system?.

Economic vulnerabilities and pandemic mobilities: Mobility of low-income populations in İstanbul during the Covid-19 pandemic (2023)
Journal Article

This paper explores the everyday mobilities of low-income populations during the Covid-19 pandemic through a mixed-methods study in İstanbul. It shows how additional economic burdens brought by the Covid-19 pandemic interplay with low-income resident... Read More about Economic vulnerabilities and pandemic mobilities: Mobility of low-income populations in İstanbul during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Improving women's accessibility to public transport through participatory street experiments: The case of Maltepe, Istanbul (2023)
Journal Article

Building on the literature concerning gender-responsive mobility, this paper aims to explore how street experiments can be used to promote gendered mobilities and create streetscapes in order to prioritise the needs of women in the improvement of acc... Read More about Improving women's accessibility to public transport through participatory street experiments: The case of Maltepe, Istanbul.

Exploring the joint impacts of income, car ownership, and built environment on daily activity patterns: A cluster analysis of trip chains (2023)
Journal Article

Clustering activity patterns and identifying homogeneous travel behaviour through trip chain sequences offer valuable insight for transportation planners and policymakers in addressing transport equity problems and travel demand management. This stud... Read More about Exploring the joint impacts of income, car ownership, and built environment on daily activity patterns: A cluster analysis of trip chains.

Sustainable urban mobility governance: Rethinking the links through movement, representation and practice for a just transport system (2023)
Book Chapter

Understanding transit ridership in an equity context through a comparison of statistical and machine learning algorithms (2022)
Journal Article

Building an accurate model of travel behaviour based on individuals’ characteristics and built environment attributes is of importance for policy-making and transportation planning. Recent experiments with big data and Machine Learning (ML) algorithm... Read More about Understanding transit ridership in an equity context through a comparison of statistical and machine learning algorithms.

Can transit investments in low-income neighbourhoods increase transit use? Exploring the nexus of income, car-ownership, and transit accessibility in Toronto (2021)
Journal Article

Transportation equity advocates recommend improving public transit in low-income neighbourhoods to alleviate socio-spatial inequalities and increase quality of life. However, transportation planners often overlook transit investments in neighbourhood... Read More about Can transit investments in low-income neighbourhoods increase transit use? Exploring the nexus of income, car-ownership, and transit accessibility in Toronto.

Working women and unequal mobilities in the urban periphery (2019)
Book Chapter

Eda Beyazit and Ceyda Sungur explore gendered mobilities in the periphery of Istanbul, within a capitalist-based and patriarchal society. Higher paid work in central areas is often not possible for females due to the lengthy journeys from suburban ar... Read More about Working women and unequal mobilities in the urban periphery.

Establishing a metropolitan transport authority in Istanbul: A new institutional economics framework for institutional change in urban transport (2019)
Journal Article

Rapid urban growth and resulting urban transport problems in developing cities trigger major transformative reform attempts. However, these attempts might fail due to ignoring the role of the institutional environment. Changing the governance structu... Read More about Establishing a metropolitan transport authority in Istanbul: A new institutional economics framework for institutional change in urban transport.

The use of state-of-the-art transport models by policymakers – beauty in simplicity? (2016)
Journal Article

Abstract: Transport demand models have a long history of being a major tool in transport policy making. However, whether they are truly used in decision-making processes, and if so, whether the knowledge they provide is actually understood, is questi... Read More about The use of state-of-the-art transport models by policymakers – beauty in simplicity?.

Are wider economic impacts of transport infrastructures always beneficial? Impacts of the Istanbul Metro on the generation of spatio-economic inequalities (2015)
Journal Article

Assessment of the Wider Economic Impacts (WEIs) of transport infrastructures has become crucial for justifying transport infrastructure investments, especially large-scale projects, not only for transport researchers but also for policy makers. Altho... Read More about Are wider economic impacts of transport infrastructures always beneficial? Impacts of the Istanbul Metro on the generation of spatio-economic inequalities.

Mobility cultures (2013)
Book Chapter

Achieving sustainable mobility - Everyday and leisure-time travel in the EU (2011)
Journal Article

Evaluating social justice in transport: Lessons to be learned from the capability approach (2010)
Journal Article

Recent theoretical and empirical studies show that there is a growing interest in considering wider social and economic impacts of transport. Since transport has an important role in distributing socio-economic benefits or losses created by different... Read More about Evaluating social justice in transport: Lessons to be learned from the capability approach.